Assuming good grades the next couple years, I would think he’d be a strong candidate for CS or CS+Math or CS+Stats. But yeah, not a sure thing by any means, though. Looking at Naviance for his high school, there are 35/36 ACT students with strong weighted GPAs that were rejected from UIUC – I assume in Engineering somewhere.
He’ll end up with ~10 AP tests and maybe 6-8 math and CS post-AP dual enrollment classes, so that seems fairly reasonable – something I’ll take more of a look at.
UT-Dallas is a real option if he decides on CS. (Less of one in math.) Problem with USC is that even with half off tuition, it’s still $50k/year – it’d only really work if he got the more rare full tuition scholarship.
Okay, I’m a little crazy about colleges, but I’m not quite that crazy.
There’s truth to that, I think. Although for him, at this point he’s most interested about the logic/algorithms/etc. aspect of computers – the more true computer science side than software engineering. (He does like coding as well, though.) So for him, maybe not as big of a deal? But I’m out of my depths a little bit.
